Woody Harrelson is one bad cop in “Rampart”
Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant is one of the most frightening law enforcement officers in movie history. Woody Harrelson as “Mickey Knox” is Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers is one of the most frightening criminals in movie history. What would happen if those two paradigms collided? Writer/director Oren Moverman (The Messenger) and screenwriter James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) have teamed up to show us just that. In his already critically acclaimed role as “L.A.P.D. Officer Dave Brown”, Woody Harrelson tackles the manipulative, bullying, “Vic Mackey”-esque (The Shield) character with gusto and is “no less potent at rest than when he explodes in calculated rage” (Richard Corliss, Time Magazine Online). Rampart boasts a high-powered supporting cast of heavy hitters like Steve Buscemi (Reservoir Dogs), Sigourney Weaver (Aliens) and Robin Wright (Unbreakable). In theaters nationwide January 27, 2012.
SYNOPSIS:
Los Angeles, 1999. Officer Dave Brown (two-time Academy Award(R) nominee Woody Harrelson) is a Vietnam vet and a Rampart Precinct cop, dedicated to doing “the people’s dirty work” and asserting his own code of justice, often blurring the lines between right and wrong to maintain his action-hero state of mind. When he gets caught on tape beating a suspect, he finds himself in a personal and emotional downward spiral as the consequences of his past sins and his refusal to change his ways in light of a department-wide corruption scandal seal his fate. Brown internalizes his fear, anguish and paranoia as his world, complete with two ex-wives who are sisters, two daughters, an aging mentor dispensing bad advice, investigators galore, and a series of seemingly random women, starts making less and less sense. In the end, what is left is a human being stripped of all his pretense, machismo, chauvinism, arrogance, sexism, homophobia, racism, aggression, misanthropy; but is it enough to redeem him as a man?
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